Surgical approach to kinking and coiling of the internal carotid artery

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-48

  Aleksic, M ^a   Schutz G ^a   Gerth, S ^a   Mulch, J ^a  

^a Krankenhaus Gerresheim   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid arteries discases, surgery; Carotid arteries, surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYNCOPE; TINNITUS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTIGO;

AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; REPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SYNCOPE; TINNITUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTIGO;

EID: 1942423134     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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